Based on Happy Times
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Based on Happy Times is Tommy Keene
's third album, his second for major label Geffen Records
. It was released in 1989 (catalog #9 24221-2) and was his first album available on CD (it was also released on LP and cassette).
Tommy Keene
Tommy Keene is an American singer-songwriter, best known for releasing critical acclaimed new wave/power pop songs in the 1980s. He has a longtime cult following among fans of the musical genre of power pop...
's third album, his second for major label Geffen Records
Geffen Records
Geffen Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operated as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.-Beginnings:...
. It was released in 1989 (catalog #9 24221-2) and was his first album available on CD (it was also released on LP and cassette).
Track listing
All songs written by Tommy Keene, except where noted- "Nothing Can Change You" – 3:19
- "Light of Love" – 3:00
- "This Could Be Fiction" – 3:24
- "Based on Happy Times" – 3:47
- "When Our Vows Break" – 3:20 (Keene, Jules ShearJules ShearJules Mark Shear is a US singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Pittsburgh in 1952. Although he has had only one minor hit as a performer , he has recorded almost 20 albums to date...
) - "The Biggest Conflict" – 3:42
- "Highwire Days" – 3:37
- "Our Car Club" – 3:22 (Brian WilsonBrian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
, Mike LoveMike LoveMichael Edward "Mike" Love is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day...
)- CoverCover versionIn popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
of the original recording by The Beach BoysThe Beach BoysThe Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
, 1963
- Cover
- "If We Run Away" – 4:06 (Keene, Shear)
- "Hanging on to Yesterday" – 3:53
- "Where Have All Your Friends Gone" – 2:25
- "Pictures" – 3:34
- "A Way Out" – 4:09
The band
- Tommy Keene — Vocals; leadLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
, rhythmRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
, and slide guitarSlide guitarSlide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
; stringsString instrumentA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
; keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Joe Hardy — Bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, organOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
("Nothing Can Change You"), strings ("Based on Happy Times"), Scale Police ("The Biggest Conflict") - John Hampton — DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
Additional musicians
- Jules Shear — Harmony vocalsBacking vocalistA backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
("Nothing Can Change You", "When Our Vows Break") - Jack Holder — Guitar ("When Our Vows Break", "The Biggest Conflict", "Highwire Days", "If We Run Away"), guitar fills ("Light of Love")
- Peter BuckPeter BuckPeter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....
— Guitar ("Our Car Club"), mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
("A Way Out") - Greg "Fingers" Taylor — HarmonicaHarmonicaThe harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
("Our Car Club") - Jeff Jurciukonis — CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
("A Way Out")
Production
- Joe Hardy — Producer, engineer
- John Hampton — Producer, engineer
- Tommy Keene — Producer
- George Marino — Mastering
- Barry Diament — CD mastering
Additional credits
- Digitally recorded and mixed at Ardent StudiosArdent StudiosArdent Studios is a recording studio located in Memphis, Tennessee. Ardent Records/Ardent Music is the in-house label.- History :Ardent Studios was founded by John Fry and was initially a studio in his family's garage, where he recorded his first Ardent Records 45's. In 1966 the operation moved...
, MemphisMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, TennesseeTennesseeTennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area... - Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
- CD mastering at Barry Diament Audio, New York City
- Rocky SchenckRocky SchenckRocky Schenck is an American music video director and photographer. He has worked with such artists as Adele, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell, The Cramps, Alice in Chains, Redd Kross, Godsmack, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Rod Stewart, and Van Halen, among others...
— Photography - Maria Sarno — Stylist
- Ph.D — Art direction and design
- Tom Zutaut — A&R coordination
- Linda Clark & Associates — Management
- "Thanks to: Bobby Keene; Bob and Dorothy Keene; David GeffenDavid GeffenDavid Geffen is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970, Geffen Records in 1980, and DGC Records in 1990...
, Ed Rosenblatt, Tom Zutaut, John KalodnerJohn KalodnerJohn David Kalodner is a retired American A&R executive. His achievements included signing Foreigner, AC/DC, Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins to Atlantic Records in the seventies....
, Marko Babineau, and everyone at Geffen Records; Linda Clark; Rick Bates; Rocky Schenck; Michael Hodgson; James Cromwell; Frank, Bernstein, Conaway and Goldman; Jerry Phillips; Frank Riley; Pat Magnarella; Julie Panebianco; Karen Moss; Jules Shear; Peter Buck; Joanna Sobol; Shirley Jacobson; John Fry; Jody Stephens; Sally Goodwin and everybody at Ardent; Steve Carr; Billy Connelly; Ted Nicely; Doug Tull; Rob Brill; Joey Picuri; John Hansen; John ChumbrisThe Slickee BoysThe Slickee Boys were a Washington, D.C. area punk-psychedelic-garage rock band whose most-remembered lineup consisted of guitarist Marshall Keith, guitarist Kim Kane, singer Mark Noone, and drummer Dan Palenski. The band has become a legend in the D.C. punk community...
; Darren Brown; Caleb Lentzer; Chris Wickam; Rick Semerjian; Stu and New Breed Studios; Teresa Ensenat; Don Dixon; Steve Haigler; Tim Collins and Staff; Dean Jeffrey; Abaad Behram and Razz for "Car Club"; Rusty Olmert; Joey Sansbury; Jack Holder; Bill Wittman; John Agnello; Robin Rapp; Doug Seymore; Clint Carruth; Aimée Tract; and especially Joe and John-forge"